h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

GInger beer and ginger ale are different things. Ginger beer is fermented. Ginger ale is just a carbonated drink with ginger and sugar in it (although from the name I'm guessing that originally it was fermented too).

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Icy North found the unhidden version of the h2g2 Ginger Beer recipe, its a good one!


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yea! that is the way me and my Dad made it, with the 'plant' May have to investigate making it myself again, though I'd need to buy some suitable bottles and stuff

I reckon you could do it by reusing clean wine bottles, just need to buy some new push in corks, they would be safer than screw topped bottles?

When we used to do it, we used the same bottles you would use if home brewing beer, and with the 'crown' tops on them... that was the only bit that took time I think, actually bottleing it all up and putting the crown tops on always seemed fiddly to do

ooh you were posh! we just used our old pop bottles - back in the day when dandelion and burdock came in glass 2pint things. None of that modern metric and plastic!

Well we had all the brewing stuff from wehn we made beer so we used them Posh? naa.... far from it It'd take me too long to build up a big enough collection of empy wine bottles to use, as I dont' really tend to drink much at home any more and I can't really afford to buy the wine I actually want to drink so I jsut don't really tend to bother

Maybe we should break with tradition and use old lemonade bottles? the plastic type? I don't think the beer would taste the same, myself

Asides this ginger beer I bought in plastic screw top bottle, I don't think I've bought a bottle of cola, lemonaid or any such fizzy drink for about twenty years the only soft drinks I buy as a rule are coffee and orange juice <doh. I don't hink coffee jars would work... and fresh orange juice cartons... naa... seems I can buy a dozen or so bottles, either glass with the crown tops, or ones of glass with the flip top style tops at about 15 quid or under, or some plastic ones designed to hold beer at about 10 pounds... though I'm still not convinced by plastic ones... at least If I ahd teh glass ones I could* try making beer some time as well as the ginger beer Anyhow, still not decided If I'll try making it, I mean asides now when its just being hot for a few days or so, I don't really ever want cold soft drinks much at all

Then order the bottles now while there might still be a month or two of heat - no good deciding you want to do it some warm week in August, and the bottles don't arrive until the end of September.

And as you say, you can use them for beer, too. There's a suitable beer for each month of the year!

There is not an
hour in the day,
day of the week,
week in a month,
month of the year,
or year of one's life,
for which it cannot be exponentially improved with the simple addition of an appropiate carefully chosen beer. ,stout>

Oh, and King Bomba, No, I've not tried the fentimans ginger beer... Not heard of them before... But after looking on their website... and quickly looking on the supermarket website I use wehn I do my grocery shopping, they have it... So I'll be trying it or four bottles of it I should say as they have a multipack of it, next time I do a shop

How odd that the original ginger beer article was hidden and this, non alcoholic version was removed from the EG and listed as "not for review"... since when is h2g2 or even BBC a "dry" web domain?

I blame the TABC... no, wait, not even they have demesne over the BBC.

2legs!

"Demesne"... I had to look that up... I thought it sounded like a stripper's stage name. Hell, somewhere it is, I'm sure.

@CountZero


>>How odd that the original ginger beer article was hidden and this, non alcoholic version was removed from the EG and listed as "not for review"... since when is h2g2 or even BBC a "dry" web domain? <<


The 'visible' copy of the Ginger Beer Entry, posted above, is the one that predates the Edited version, ie the end product of Peer Review. It is sent back to the author's personal space, marked 'not for review' whilst the sub-editor gets sent a separate copy of this (with a new A number) to work on, prior to publication. This means that there are usually two copies of an Entry, both Edited and unedited. We're hoping to get the Edited version re-instated as there seems no good reason for it to be hidden.

Its hidden under the terrorism act, so its blairs or browns fault not mine... the explosive quality of ginger beer bottles could be used by a terrorist... simularly, soon any article on H2G2 about food which mentions using a knife to cut vegetables or meat, will have to be removed as its an incitment to violence. Anyone who has a copy, of any such guide entery stored on their PC (temp files will suffice) will be hunted down and detained without representation for an indetermine time, with no chance of a trial or hearing over their case. But its all in the national interest so its

and now I've no ginger beer left in the house shall have to resort to guinnness if its hot again today as I seem to have a plethra of guinness in the fridge...

Ah, Thanks Lanzababy. That makes sense.

The ginger been scene in the book Night Watch is still one of my all time Pratchett moments